“You surely don’t wish to cure Anglomania with Anglophobia”

Abstract

This article recovers a neglected episode in Henry Crabb Robinson’s increasingly well-mapped first phase as a literary and cultural mediator between England and Germany.1 At the beginning of June 1803, writing to his brother from Jena where he was a student, Robinson recounted with satisfaction that a meeting with Friedrich Nicolai had resulted in his submitting a letter for publication in a famous German periodical: